Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Regulate Online Poker. Please Vote

Let's Regulate Online Poker. Please vote and be heard. This is very important because it's so hard to get cash online to play poker. It only takes one minute of your time to register and vote. Please do it right now, don't wait to do it later.

http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/ideas/viewI...

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Bad Beat Jackpot?

$0.25/$0.5 No Limit Holdem
8 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:
UTG Herbstwald ($48.25)
UTG+1 tripsntraps ($17.70)
MP1 pfletch49 ($40.20)
MP2 Superdave1974 ($28.60)
CO Hakimakli ($56.30)
BTN call in 33 ($6.95)
SB Hero ($50.00)
BB lany89 ($38.85)

Pre-flop: ($0.75, 8 players) Hero is SB

4 folds, Hakimakli raises to $1.75, call in 33 goes all-in $6.95, Hero calls $6.70, 1 fold, Hakimakli calls $5.20

Flop: ($21.35, 3 players)
Hero checks, Hakimakli checks

Turn: ($21.35, 3 players)
Hero checks, Hakimakli bets $6.50, Hero raises to $13, Hakimakli calls $6.50

River: ($47.35, 3 players)
Hero goes all-in $30.05, Hakimakli calls $30.05, Hakimakli says "wow"

Final Pot: $107.45
Hero shows:
Hakimakli shows:
call in 33 shows:

Hakimakli wins $104.45 ( won +$54.45 )
Hero lost -$50
call in 33 lost -$6.95



Double bad beat. There is no bad beat jackpot at FTP. This hand would of qualified if there was one.

So far this month, I'm a small loser over 27k hands. I'm running terrible but it's nothing new. I just gotta keep on grinding and my hands will eventually hold up. Half the hands were at $100 nlhe FR and the other half is at $50 nlhe FR. I dropped back down to $50 nlhe FR to regain confidence. I also hired a FR coach. His name is Eric (Damn Ringer) and is a FR Pro playing at Cake and FTP $200 and $400 nlhe FR. I found him off of the CR Coaching Forum. My first coaching session will be this coming Thursday. I'm really looking forward to it.

I plan to take this month slow and really analyze my poker game. I'm in the process of reviewing my last 127k hands and will probably make a post about it. I think it's a good time to do that because I'm not running so well and don't want to put in too many hours when my confidence is low.

My poker goal this year is to be able to beat $200 nlhe FR. Mark that down, no more silly shots at higher stakes. Just a slow grind up to that level because with rakeback/bonuses, it's dame hard to lose at this game when playing your A game.


Good Luck